Deleuze's Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics

186 Pages·2007·1.79 MB·English

by  Ronald Bogue

DELEUZE’S WAY
Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in
Deleuze’s philosophy this book provides clear indications of the practical implications
of Deleuze’s approach to the arts through detailed analyses of the ethical dimension
of artistic activity in literature, music, and film.
Bogue examines Deleuze’s “transverse way” of interrelating the ethical and the
aesthetic, the transverse way being both a mode of thought and a practice of living.
Among the issues examined are those of the relationship of music to literature, the
political vocation of the arts, violence in popular music, the ethics and aesthetics
of education, the use of music and sound in film, the role of the visual in literary
invention, the function of the arts in cross cultural interactions, and the future of
Deleuzian analysis as a means of forming an open, reciprocally self-constituting,
transcultural global culture.
Drawing on years of insight into the works of Gilles Deleuze, Ronald Bogue provides
a careful and systematic study of Deleuze’s transverse way, the myriad diagonal paths
connecting seemingly incommunicable domains: Deleuze’s immanent ethics as they
correspond to the themes of the “minor” in literature and music; the construction of
concepts through a pedagogy of images and the efficacy of fabulation; nomadology
considered both as an expression of actual nomadic practices and as a comparative
poetics for understanding globalization. Through this exploration of the Deleuzian
method, Bogue reveals how these transversal connections constitute so many ways
of thinking, of creating, and of multiplying variations that enliven and conjoin the
arts and philosophy.
Charles J. Stivale, Distinguished Professor of French,
Wayne State University, USA
For my sister, Cynthia Bogue
Deleuze’s Way
Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics
RONALD BOGUE
University of Georgia, USA
© Ronald Bogue 2007
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Bogue, Ronald, 1948-
Deleuze’s way : essays in transverse ethics and aesthetics
1. Deleuze, Gilles 2. Deleuze, Gilles - Aesthetics
3. Ethics
I. Title
194
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bogue, Ronald, 1948-
Deleuze’s way : essays in transverse ethics and aesthetics / Ronald Bogue.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-6032-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995. 2.
Ethics. 3. Aesthetics. I. Title.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-6032-3
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction The Transverse Way: Du côté de chez Deleuze 1
1 Immanent Ethics 7
2 Minority, Territory, Music 17
3 Violence in Three Shades of Metal: Death, Doom and Black 35
4 Search, Swim and See: Deleuze’s Apprenticeship
in Signs and Pedagogy of Images 53
5 Tragedy, Sight and Sound: The Birth of Godard’s
Prénom Carmen from the Nietzschean Spirit of Music 69
6 Bergsonian Fabulation and the People to Come 91
7 Re-Viewing Deleuze’s Sacher-Masoch 107
8 Apology for Nomadology 113
9 Nomadism, Globalism and Cultural Studies 123
10 Nomadology’s Trial by Proxy 137
Bibliography 167
Index 171
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Acknowledgements
I am grateful to the University of Georgia’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
and the University of Georgia Research Foundation for their generous support of
this project. For their encouragement and advice, I would like to thank Constantin V.
Boundas, Ian Buchanan, Hanping Chiu, David Jones, Jean Khalfa, John K. Noyes,
Michael Schwartz, Inna Semetsky, Marcel Swiboda and Jason Wirth. I am also
grateful for permission to publish modified versions of essays that appeared in the
following:
“The Immanent Ethics of Gilles Deleuze,” in A Feast of Logos: Essays in
Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Georgia Continental Philosophy
Circle, eds Jason Wirth, Michael Schwartz, and David Jones (Atlanta: Georgia
Philosophy Series, 2005), pp. 87–99. © Georgia Philosophy Series, reprinted with
permission.
“Minority, Territory, Music,” in An Introduction to the Complete Work of Gilles
Deleuze, ed. Jean Khalfa (London: Continuum, 2003), pp. 114–32. © Ronald
Bogue, reprinted with kind permission of the publisher.
“Violence in Three Shades of Metal: Death, Doom, and Black,” in Deleuze and
Music, eds Ian Buchanan and Marcel Swiboda (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 2004), pp. 95–117. © Ronald Bogue, reprinted with permission of the
publisher.
“Search, Swim and See: Deleuze’s Apprenticeship in Signs and Pedagogy of
Images,” Educational Philosophy and Theory, 36/3 (2004): 327–42. © Blackwell
Publishing, reprinted with permission.
“Apology for Nomadology,” Interventions, 6/2 (2004): 169–79. © Taylor and Francis
<http://www.tandf.co.uk>, reprinted with permission.
“Nomadic Flows: Globalism and the Local Absolute,” Concentric, 31/1 (2005):
7–25. © Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, reprinted
with permission.
“Bergsonian Fabulation and the People to Come,” in Deleuze and Philosophy, ed.
Constantin V. Boundas (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006). © Ronald
Bogue, reprinted with permission of the publisher.
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List of Abbreviations
All translations from Deleuze, Guattari and Deleuze-Guattari are my own. For works
that have appeared in English translation, citations include page numbers of the
original French edition followed by the page numbers of the corresponding passages
in the English translation.
AO Deleuze and Guattari. L’Anti-Oedipe: Capitalisme et schizophrénie I.
Paris: Minuit, 1972. Anti-Oedipus. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and
Helen R. Lane. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
B Deleuze. Le Bergsonisme. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1966.
Bergsonism. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. New York:
Zone Books, 1991.
CC Deleuze. Critique et clinique. Paris: Minuit, 1993. Essays Critical and
Clinical. Trans. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
D Deleuze and Claire Parnet. Dialogues. Paris: Flammarion, 1977. Dialogues.
Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1987.
DR Deleuze. Différence et répétition. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,
1968. Difference and Repetition. Trans. Paul Patton. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1994.
DRF Deleuze. Deux régimes de foux: textes et entretiens 1975–1995. Ed. David
Lapoujade. Paris: Minuit, 2003. Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and
Interviews 1975–1995. Trans. Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina. New
York: Semiotext(e), 2006.
E Deleuze. L’Épuisé (published with Samuel Beckett’s Quad). Paris: Minuit,
1992. “The Exhausted,” in Essays Critical and Clinical. Trans. Daniel W.
Smith and Michael A. Greco. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1997, pp. 152–74.
FB Deleuze. Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation. Vol. 1. Paris: Editions de
la différence, 1981. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Trans. Daniel
W. Smith. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.